 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...and I know of no resting-places so precious and so quiet as these. Paul calls circumcision a seal. " And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, being yet uncircumcised," Rom. iv. 11. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...sign. And circumcision in the flesh is no more than a sign likewise: for it is said,, that Abraham received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, being yet uncircumcised, Rom. iv. 11. For true circumcision is performed by God himself; as it is written,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 468 pages
...righteousness. Even so Abraham" believed in th« Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness," Gen xv. 6. " And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith," — that he might be the father of all them that believe, — that righteousness might be imputed... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...justified by faith," before he was baptized : and that his baptism was a profession of his faith, " and a seal of the righteousness of the " faith, which he had yet being unbaptized."3 But if he had not truly believed, would his baptism have conveyed justification ? The... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...without which they wijl be utterly ineffectual to you. THE NATURE OF THE SACRAMENTS. -Rom. ir. 1 1 . — And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of...of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised. THIS text discovers the nature of a sacrament, in the description the apostle gives us of circumcision,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...righteousness." (This was a little before God established his covenant with him, and is related, Gen. xv. 6.J '; And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of...of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 528 pages
...for righteousness, was so reckoned not when he was in circumcision, but in wtcireumcision; and that he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the...of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised. Thirdly, the apostle when asserting justification /'"•• faith, without the deeds of the law (Rom.... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1812 - 286 pages
...divine grace, they may be a mean of promoting the Redeemer's kingdom. SERMON I. ROMANS, iv. 11 — 12. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of, the faith, which he had, being yet uncircumcised : that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of failh. PARAPHRASE. of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had, being yet uncircumcised", that he might be the father of all those who believe, being uncircumcised,... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 pages
...uncireumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal, (not of Mr. M.'s external covenant, but) of the righteousness of the faith ^which he had, yet being uncircumcised ; that he might be the father, (not of those graceless men, that enter into Mr. M.'s graceless covenant,... | |
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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them... 
